The nominations for the 2026 Emmy Awards were announced today! “Taylor Swift | The Eras Tour | The Final Show” is nominated in five categories, including Outstanding Variety Special (Pre-Recorded). Taylor Swift previously won an Emmy in 2015 for “AMEX Unstaged: Taylor Swift Experience.” The show will air live on NBC and Peacock on Monday, September 14 at 8 PM ET. Check out the article below for all the details!

Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour is now entering an Emmys era.

Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour — The Final Show received five nominations for the 2026 Emmys including for best variety special (prerecorded), best directing for a variety special (Glenn Weiss), outstanding picture editing for variety programming, outstanding sound mixing for a variety series or special and outstanding technical direction and camerawork for a special.

The Final Show was also produced by Taylor Swift Productions, in association with Silent House Productions. In addition to Swift being acknowledged as a performer and producer for the special, other nominated executive producers include Baz Halpin, Mark Bracco and Linda Gierahn. Rose-Ellen Galluzzo is a supervising producer and Bradley Stein a line producer.

Premiering on Disney+ on Dec. 12, 2025, Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour — The Final Show showcased the superstar performing the final show in her historical Eras Tour, which generated a record-breaking $2 billion in ticket sales across 149 shows. The Eras Tour is recognized as the highest-grossing tour of all time, by artists of any genre, and from any era in music history, per Billboard. The full concert film The Eras Tour | The Final Show was filmed in Vancouver and expanded the 2023 theatrical release with the entire set for The Tortured Poets Department, which highlighted Swift’s 2024 studio album that was added to the show after its surprise release.

The superstar singer-songwriter had announced the Disney+ concert film and docuseries in October 2025 on Instagram, writing: “It was the End of an Era and we knew it. We wanted to remember every moment leading up to the culmination of the most important and intense chapter of our lives, so we allowed filmmakers to capture this tour and all the stories woven throughout it as it wound down. And to film the final show in its entirety.”

Swift kicked off the Eras Tour in Glendale, Ariz. on March 17, 2023.

The release of The Final Show was followed by The End of an Era docuseries, a six-episode behind-the-scenes series that offered “an intimate look at Taylor’s life as her tour made headlines and thrilled fans around the world.” The series, which offered “never-before-seen insight into what it took to create a phenomenon” also spotlight and featured interviews with the performers, family members and Swift’s friends and guest performers Gracie Abrams, Sabrina Carpenter, Ed Sheeran and Florence Welch. Swift’s now-husband Travis Kelce was also featured in the docuseries.

Jeff Hiller and Liza Colón-Zayas announced this year’s nominees in the nominations ceremony on Wednesday morning.

The 78th Emmy Awards will be broadcast live Monday, Sept. 14, (8-11 p.m. ET/5-8 p.m. PT) on NBC and stream live on Peacock. Mariska Hargitay will host. The Creative Arts Emmys will take place on Saturday, Sept. 5, and Sunday, Sept. 6.

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